en_cjb - Psa 109 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(0)] For the leader. A psalm of David: [(1)] God, whom I praise, don’t remain silent!

² For wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me, spoken against me with lying tongues,

³ surrounded me with hateful words, and attacked me without cause.

⁴ In return for my love they became my accusers, even though I prayed for them.

⁵ They repay me evil for good and hatred for my love.

⁶ [They say,] “Appoint a wicked man over him, may an accuser stand at his right.

⁷ When he is tried, let him be found guilty, may even his plea be counted a sin.

⁸ May his days be few, may someone else take his position.

⁹ May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

¹⁰ May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.

¹¹ May creditors seize all he owns and strangers make off with his earnings.

¹² May no one treat him kindly, and may no one take pity on his orphaned children.

¹³ May his posterity be cut off; may his name be erased within a generation.

¹⁴ May the wrongs of his ancestors be remembered by ADONAI, and may the sin of his mother not be erased;

¹⁵ may they always be before ADONAI, so he can cut off all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶ For he did not remember to show kindness but hounded the downtrodden, the poor and the brokenhearted to death.

¹⁷ He loved cursing; may it recoil on him! He didn’t like blessing; may it stay far from him!

¹⁸ He clothed himself with cursing as routinely as with his coat; May it enter inside him as easily as water, as easily as oil into his bones.

¹⁹ May it cling to him like the coat he wears, like the belt he wraps around himself.”

²⁰ This is what my adversaries want ADONAI to do, those who speak evil against me.

²¹ But you, God, ADONAI, treat me as your name demands; rescue me, because your grace is good.

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart within me is wounded.

²³ Like a lengthening evening shadow, I am gone; I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴ My knees are weak from lack of food, my flesh wastes away for lack of nourishment.

²⁵ I have become the object of their taunts; when they see me, they shake their heads.

²⁶ Help me, ADONAI, my God! Save me, in keeping with your grace;

²⁷ so that they will know that this comes from your hand, that you, ADONAI, have done it.

²⁸ Let them go on cursing; but you, bless! When they attack, let them be put to shame; but let your servant rejoice.

²⁹ Let my adversaries be clothed with confusion, let them wear their own shame like a robe.

³⁰ I will eagerly thank ADONAI with my mouth, I will praise him right there in the crowd,

³¹ because he stands alongside a needy person to defend him from unjust accusers.